There were many moments when the inside of my head sounded a lot like this:

I worked my way through those stages and dug in and did the work. I finished the project last night.

This morning I woke up to find the leftovers:

I will soon put all of this away, but other leftovers remain: It will be easier to say yes to something like this in the future and maybe, just maybe, I won't drive myself to this degree of insanity the next time.